Harry Reid to force gun amendment vote in Obamacare repeal

Calling gun violence “a cancer on this nation,” Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid is trying to do something about it, and make a point in Thursday's Obamacare repeal and Planned Parenthood defunding bill. He'll force a vote on a gun control amendment intended to make women's clinics safer.

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid has introduced the amendment, which would ban gun ownership by people who have been convicted of misdemeanors under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, a 1994 law meant to prevent violence and harassment at abortion clinics.

The bill is a clear response to last week’s shooting at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado, where three people were killed and nine were injured.

Yesterday's massacre in San Bernardino only strengthened his resolve. He castigated his colleagues from the Senate floor Thursday morning, saying they are "complicit through our inaction. And if we continue to fail to act we'll be complicit today and every day into the future."

The Senate will begin voting on amendments to the repeal bill this afternoon.